Re: NetBSD matrix client?

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 24 November 2022 19:47:31 (+00:00), Greg Troxel wrote:

>
> Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost> writes:
>
> > On 11/24/22 7:03 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> >> See chat/element-web.
> >
> > I did. From its name I figured it was something to run with a web 
server.
>
> It is a client that runs in a browser, and the package contains the
> files to be served to the browser.
>
> > Looking at the package, neither DESCR, nor the Makefile, nor the PLIST
> > gives me the slightest idea what to do with the thing - no
> > dependencies, and a bunch of files dumped under
> > PREFIX/share/element-web.
>
> If you are actually trying to set it up, one adds
>
> location /element {
> alias /usr/pkg/share/element-web;
>
> add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
> add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
> add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
> add_header Content-Security-Policy "frame-ancestors 'none'";
> }
>
> with a server to nginx.conf. A fair point that upstream's documentation
> is not great, but it's sort of explained in the README at toplevel in
> their github source repo.
>
> > Which is quite representative for the whole matrix experience, as far
> > as it's gone for me.
>
> It is a little complicated. I worked through setting up synapse as a
> homeserver.
>
> Besides Element, I believe there are other clients. gomuks is in
> pkgsrc. There is also ement.el, for emacs.
>
> In pkgsrc there is py-matrix-nio and py-mautrix, which have various
> degrees of library support.
>
> It would be nice if there were more clients. But at least the specs are
> published and there are no impediments to implementing it other than
> that it is complicated.
>
> Maybe you can get the university to use XMPP instead.
>

FWIW, I've tried both element-web and gomuks, they worked for me as well as 
one could expect. 
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Chavdar Ivanov